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<h1 class="refname">SimpleXMLElement::__construct</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.0.1)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">SimpleXMLElement::__construct</span> — <span class="dc-title">
Creates a new SimpleXMLElement object
</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.construct-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="constructorsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">final</span> <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>SimpleXMLElement::__construct()</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$data</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$options</code><span class="initializer"> = 0</span></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <code class="parameter">$data_is_url</code><span class="initializer"> = false</span></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$ns</code><span class="initializer"> = ""</span></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <code class="parameter">$is_prefix</code><span class="initializer"> = false</span></span>
]]]] )</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Creates a new <a href="class.simplexmlelement.html" class="classname">SimpleXMLElement</a> object.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.construct-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
<dl>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">data</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
A well-formed XML string or the path or URL to an XML document if
<em><code class="parameter">data_is_url</code></em> is <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong>.
</p>
</dd>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">options</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Optionally used to specify <a href="libxml.constants.html" class="link">additional
Libxml parameters</a>.
</p>
</dd>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">data_is_url</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
By default, <em><code class="parameter">data_is_url</code></em> is <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>. Use <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> to
specify that <em><code class="parameter">data</code></em> is a path or URL to an XML
document instead of <span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.html" class="type string">string</a></span> data.
</p>
</dd>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">ns</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Namespace prefix or URI.
</p>
</dd>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">is_prefix</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
<strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> if <em><code class="parameter">ns</code></em> is a prefix, <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> if it's a URI;
defaults to <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>.
</p>
</dd>
</dt>
</dl>
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.construct-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns a <span class="type"><a href="class.simplexmlelement.html" class="type SimpleXMLElement">SimpleXMLElement</a></span> object representing
<em><code class="parameter">data</code></em>.
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 errors" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.construct-errors">
<h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3>
<p class="para">
Produces an <strong><code>E_WARNING</code></strong> error message for each error
found in the XML data and additionally throws an <a href="class.exception.html" class="classname">Exception</a> if the XML data
could not be parsed.
</p>
<div class="tip"><strong class="tip">Tip</strong>
<p class="para">
Use <span class="function"><a href="function.libxml-use-internal-errors.html" class="function">libxml_use_internal_errors()</a></span> to suppress all XML
errors, and <span class="function"><a href="function.libxml-get-errors.html" class="function">libxml_get_errors()</a></span> to iterate over them
afterwards.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.construct-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
<p class="para">
<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
<p class="para">
Listed examples may include <em>example.php</em>,
which refers to the XML string found in the first example
of the <a href="simplexml.examples-basic.html" class="link">basic usage</a> guide.
</p>
</p></blockquote>
<div class="example" id="example-5503">
<p><strong>Example #1 Create a SimpleXMLElement object</strong></p>
<div class="example-contents">
<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #007700">include </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'example.php'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sxe </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SimpleXMLElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xmlstr</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sxe</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">movie</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">]-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">title</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
</div>
<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
<div class="example-contents screen">
<div class="cdata"><pre>
PHP: Behind the Parser
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</p>
<p class="para">
<div class="example" id="example-5504">
<p><strong>Example #2 Create a SimpleXMLElement object from a URL</strong></p>
<div class="example-contents">
<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$sxe </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SimpleXMLElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'http://example.org/document.xml'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">NULL</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">TRUE</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sxe</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">asXML</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
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</div>
</p>
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<div class="refsect1 changelog" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.construct-changelog">
<h3 class="title">Changelog</h3>
<p class="para">
<table class="doctable informaltable">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Version</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody class="tbody">
<tr>
<td>5.2.0</td>
<td>Added the <em><code class="parameter">ns</code></em> and <em><code class="parameter">is_prefix</code></em> parameters.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5.1.2</td>
<td>Added the <em><code class="parameter">options</code></em> and <em><code class="parameter">data_is_url</code></em> parameters.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-simplexmlelement.construct-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
<p class="para">
<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"><a href="simplexml.examples-basic.html" class="xref">Basic SimpleXML usage</a></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.simplexml-load-string.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">simplexml_load_string()</a> - Interprets a string of XML into an object</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.simplexml-load-file.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">simplexml_load_file()</a> - Interprets an XML file into an object</span></li>
<li class="member"><a href="simplexml.examples-errors.html" class="xref">Dealing with XML errors</a></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.libxml-use-internal-errors.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">libxml_use_internal_errors()</a> - Disable libxml errors and allow user to fetch error information as needed</span></li>
</ul>
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